Copy editor, Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record

I wonder what the situation here is after the layoffs earlier this year when it seemed to be the last hired was the first to be laid off. That would tend to make anybody hesitate to apply here.

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Ondeadline, you hit the proverbial nail on the head. Greensboro isn't far from me but I'd rather be the SE of a smaller daily (which I am) than risk being laid off. Not saying that's the way everybody should see but it's how I see it.

As for layoffs, I doubt the N&R is the only company that has used the last-hired/first-fired rule. I don't know if that's what they'll do next time. I don't know if there will be a next time - I'm hoping not, and nothing appears imminent (i.e. tomorrow).

If your top career goal right now is not to get laid off, don't leave your current job. I don't blame you. Seniority (and familiarity) has its benefits. And I like getting a check every two weeks. But if you want to work for an APSE top-20 paper that also holds its own in the N.C. Press awards *and* is a pretty darn good place to work, please apply.

Questions? Fire away.

P.S. Because we've changed our hiring policies, I'm not going to return PMs or e-mails (I can't - long story) but will instead answer questions in this thread. I'll keep your name and specific circumstances out of it.

No, the N&R probably isn't the first to use the last hired/first laid-off model and certainly isn't the first to lay off people. John, I know you had no control over the layoffs and the following has nothing to do with you or your staff.

But I have to wonder about upper-management at a newspaper that would allow somebody to be hired when they had to know that layoffs were coming the NEXT week. That was the case with the N&R layoffs earlier this year where a person was laid off days after starting.

John, I'm not trying to steer anyone from the N&R. You guys do a great job over there. Being on that staff would be a plus to anyone's career. If this was 20 years ago I would have jumped at it. But security is more important to me now. Is what ondeadline saying true about someone being laid off days after hire? That would be awful.

John, I'm not trying to steer anyone from the N&R. You guys do a great job over there. Being on that staff would be a plus to anyone's career. If this was 20 years ago I would have jumped at it. But security is more important to me now. Is what ondeadline saying true about someone being laid off days after hire? That would be awful.

John, I'm not trying to steer anyone from the N&R. You guys do a great job over there. Being on that staff would be a plus to anyone's career. If this was 20 years ago I would have jumped at it. But security is more important to me now. Is what ondeadline saying true about someone being laid off days after hire? That would be awful.